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Government wins vote of confidence

January 17, 2019 Politics | Polity

The government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has won a vote of confidence in parliament by 151 to 148 votes on Wednesday evening. The PM had initiated the motion on Sunday, following the resignation of Panos Kammenos, leader of Independent Greeks (ANEL),…

Filming Greece | Hellas Filmbox Berlin 2019: No more Walls

January 16, 2019 Filming Greece

The 4th edition of Hellas Filmbox Berlin is taking place from January 16 to 20, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the support of the Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media. The Festival returns at the historic Babylon cinema,…

Reading Greece | Writer Elias Kafaoglou: “The democratisation of desires is what I’d like to hold on to from the ‘digital age’”

January 15, 2019 Reading Greece

Elias Kafaoglou is a writer and journalist. He has penned a number of essays and studies on themes ranging from Modern Greek literature and history to cars and foortball. Apart from his books, his literary and other articles have appeared in various magazines…

Enterprise Greece – Setting up a company in Greece

Jan 14, 2019 Business | Innovation | Education
Rethinking Greece: Maria Boletsi on Cavafy's 'barbarians' and on making Greece and its culture part of transnational debates

Jan 09, 2019 Rethinking Greece
Filming Greece | “Pause”: An accurate portrayal of the acute pain of oppression

Jan 09, 2019 Filming Greece
Meropi Tzoufi on Greek-language education abroad

Jan 07, 2019 Government | Policy
Art historian Alexandra Kouroutaki on Christmas in Modern Greek painting

Dec 19, 2018 Arts in Greece
Historian Stathis Pavlopoulos on "Metapolitefsi.com" platform by ASKI

Dec 14, 2018 Media & Greece
Filming Greece | Vasilis Kekatos takes his Fish to Sundance

Dec 14, 2018 Filming Greece
20th Annual Capital Link "Invest in Greece" Forum

Dec 12, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
Filming Greece | “Give a little loving to Greek Cinema … aka the need for a single cinematic policy”

Dec 10, 2018 Filming Greece
Action Plan for a Sustainable and Equitable Development

Dec 08, 2018 Politics | Polity
International Cavafy Summer School 2019: "Cavafy’s Orient/ations"

Dec 07, 2018 Culture | Society
Reading Greece | “111 Places in Athens That You Shouldn't Miss”: The stories that make up a city

Dec 05, 2018 Reading Greece
Greek Politics Specialist Group: An international network for the study of Greek politics

Dec 04, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
Reading Greece | Professor José António Costa Ideias on Greek language and literature in Portugal

Dec 04, 2018 Reading Greece
Filming Greece | “BEYOND BORDERS” International Documentary Festival, Castellorizo: From the edge of the Aegean to the world

Dec 03, 2018 Filming Greece
The Thorny Challenge of Business Innovation

Nov 28, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
Rethinking Greece: Dimitra Vassiliadou on the history of emotions, sexuality and Greek historiography

Nov 27, 2018 Rethinking Greece
R&D spending in Greece reached a record high in 2017

Nov 26, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
Revithoussa LNG terminal set to become South East Mediterranean emergy hub

Nov 23, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
MIRfestival 2018

Nov 22, 2018 Culture | Society
First post-memorandum budget tabled in Parliament

Nov 21, 2018 Politics | Polity
Filming Greece | “Dance Fight Love Die. With Mikis On the Road": an idiosyncratic portrait of an idiosyncratic artist

Nov 20, 2018 Filming Greece
“The Science & Orthodox Christianity Relationship” Int’l Conference

Nov 19, 2018 Culture | Society
Strategy expert Yiorgos Mylonadis: “Greek entrepreneurs must adopt a global mindset”

Nov 16, 2018 Innovative Greece
Reading Greece: Riikka Pulkkinen on Greek Literature in Finland

Nov 14, 2018 Reading Greece
“Sephardic Jews - History and Culture” event

Nov 14, 2018 Culture | Society
Greece - State of the Environment Report 2018

Nov 13, 2018 Politics | Polity
PM Alexis Tsipras: "The Social Democrats and the Left must meet on the basis of a progressive plan for 21st century Europe"

Nov 12, 2018 Politics | Polity
The Emile awards nominees announced at the Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media

Nov 09, 2018 Politics | Polity
9th Biennale of Young Greek Architects

Nov 09, 2018 Culture | Society
ΙΟΒΕ: Investment activity to grow 12-14% in 2019

Nov 07, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
Athens: European Capital of Innovation 2018

Nov 07, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
2nd Athens Innovation Festival

Nov 06, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
The portrayal of women in Modern Greek painting

Nov 05, 2018 Culture | Society
Manos Hadjidakis: The grand poet of Greek music

Nov 02, 2018 Culture | Society
59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Charity and alterity in cinema celebration

Nov 01, 2018 Culture | Society
Greek scientific publications increase their impact

Oct 30, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
Alexis Tsipras: "Constitutional revision a historic opportunity for progressive forces in Greece"

Oct 30, 2018 Politics | Polity
Home new Home continues giving voice to Refugees

Oct 29, 2018 Culture | Society
Reading Greece | Interview with Greek poet Nikolaos Vlahakis

Oct 29, 2018 Reading Greece
Axel Sotiris Walldén on Greece and Sweden during the Axis Occupation and the military dictatorship

Oct 25, 2018 Quo Vadis Europa?
"Lament from Epirus" An Odyssey into Greek folk music

Oct 25, 2018 Arts in Greece
Bulgarian photojournalist Anthony Georgieff: "Greeks have a well developed sense of communality"

Oct 24, 2018 Culture | Society
6th Athens Biennale: ANTI-

Oct 23, 2018 Culture | Society
Filming Greece | Thanasis Neofotistos on portraying people in their private Twilight Zone

Oct 22, 2018 Filming Greece
Alternate Minister for Research and Innovation addresses the 67th ERC Scientific Council plenary meeting

Oct 22, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
Maria Papafigou on the projects of OOAK Architects - The meltemi wind that takes Greece everywhere

Oct 18, 2018 Arts in Greece
Sissy Alonistiotou: "Media literacy is a fundamental tool for combating bias and hate speech"

Oct 17, 2018 Media & Greece
The Athens Games Festival strikes back!

Oct 17, 2018 Politics | Polity
Reading Greece | Alexis Panselinos: “A writer must stand courageously in front of the mirror that is his art”

Oct 16, 2018 Reading Greece
SEESOX Diaspora: New research project and website on Greek Diaspora

Oct 14, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologizes for Nazi crimes

Oct 12, 2018 Politics | Polity
Filming Greece | The 15th San Francisco Greek Film Festival returns with a vengeance (and a new award)

Oct 11, 2018 Filming Greece
“12 October 1944 - Free Athens” The city commemorates the 74th anniversary of its liberation

Oct 11, 2018 Culture | Society
Visual designer Charis Tsevis: “Education is our only weapon and best hope for the future”

Oct 10, 2018 Arts in Greece
Greek Books @ the 70th Frankfurt Book Fair

Oct 09, 2018 Culture | Society
1st Biennale of Western Balkans: Interview with Director Christos Dermentzopoulos

Oct 05, 2018 Arts in Greece
Tragedy 2.0_Athens 2018

Oct 05, 2018 Culture | Society
Costas Varotsos: The Poet Sculptor

Oct 04, 2018 Culture | Society
Modern Greek Studies: Present state, future prospects: Interviews with Konstantinos Dimadis and Vassilios Sabatakakis on the occasion of the 6th European Congress in Lund

Oct 03, 2018 Culture | Society
Stelios Rallis, Secretary General for Digital Policy, on Greece's digital skills training projects

Oct 02, 2018 Government | Policy
4th International Poetry Festival – Athens 2018

Sep 28, 2018 Culture | Society
The future revisited: Greece, the EU and the way ahead after the memoranda

Sep 28, 2018 Opinion | Analysis
Composer Lina Tonia on the quest for uniqueness and going beyond Greek borders

Sep 28, 2018 Arts in Greece
53d Dimitria festival: Future / Heritage

Sep 26, 2018 Culture | Society
AmiRetreat Conference 2018: Media, Polis, Agora: Journalism and Communication in the Digital Era

Sep 26, 2018 Media & Greece
Dimitrios Vitsas: «We are seeking common European solutions»

Sep 25, 2018 Politics | Polity
Two Greek museums awarded for short videos

Sep 21, 2018 Culture | Society
Kevin Andrews’ journey into Greece

Sep 21, 2018 Culture | Society
Yannis Moralis retrospective at the Benaki Museum

Sep 19, 2018 Culture | Society
Filming Greece | Ministry of Digital Policy at the 1st International Archaelogical, Ethnographical and Historical Documentary and Cultural Festival in Cyprus

Sep 18, 2018 Filming Greece
Composer Dimitris Marangopoulos: "The crisis has stimulated a rediscovery of the arts"

Sep 18, 2018 Arts in Greece
Euclid Tsakalotos: New relaxation on capital controls very soon

Sep 17, 2018 Politics | Polity
BYZANTIUM “and the Others” in the first millennium

Sep 14, 2018 Culture | Society
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian interview to Kathimerini

Sep 14, 2018 Politics | Polity
Filming Greece | “Torpor”: Sleepwalking to adulthood

Sep 13, 2018 Filming Greece
Rethinking Greece: Dimitris Papanikolaou on Greek exceptionalism and the "Holy Greek family"

Sep 13, 2018 Rethinking Greece
The NY Times Athens Democracy Forum 2018

Sep 13, 2018 Politics | Polity
Vicky Pryce: “Greece has achieved a remarkable turnaround”

Sep 12, 2018 Quo Vadis Europa?
ASFA BBQ 2018: The Garden of Dystopian Pleasures

Sep 12, 2018 Culture | Society
"Democracy" exhibition at Eptapyrgion

Sep 11, 2018 Culture | Society
Filming Greece | Dimitris Katsimiris takes a walk on the dark side

Sep 10, 2018 Filming Greece
Greek PM: "Greece has achieved a "clean exit" from the bailout programme"

Sep 10, 2018 Politics | Polity
83rd Thessaloniki International Fair DIGITAL GREECE: The audiovisual industry in Greece

Sep 07, 2018 Politics | Polity
83rd Thessaloniki International Fair 2018

Sep 06, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
Filming Greece | Jacqueline Lentzou on the Utopia of Belonging

Sep 05, 2018 Filming Greece
Greek Seas: A photographic journey in time

Sep 05, 2018 Culture | Society
Digital Policy Dep Min Lefteris Kretsos: The audiovisual sector is the new heavy industry for Greece

Sep 04, 2018 Politics | Polity
Paul Glastris: “In every human endeavor you can think of, there are Greeks at the top of the game”

Sep 03, 2018 Media & Greece
Kolonos festival 2018

Aug 31, 2018 Culture | Society
Giannis Petridis: "We live in an era that ultimately favors commercial music"

Aug 30, 2018 Media & Greece
Michalis Psalidopoulos: “Greek economy´s medium-term growth will be satisfactory”

Aug 29, 2018 Government | Policy
Government Reshuffle

Aug 29, 2018 Politics | Polity
Professor John S. Baras: “Greece needs more efficient linkage of Universities and Research Centers to economic development”

Aug 28, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
Aeschylia Festival 2018

Aug 27, 2018 Culture | Society
German Green Party MP Lisa Badum on climate change and the need to act at the EU and local level

Aug 23, 2018 Government | Policy
Alexis Tsipras' state address from Ithaca: "Today is the beginning of a new era"

Aug 22, 2018 Politics | Polity
18 Greek products that defied the crisis

Aug 22, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
5 innovative digital solutions to improve everyday life

Aug 13, 2018 Business | Innovation | Education
New civil protection plan presented by PM Tsipras

Aug 10, 2018 Politics | Polity

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